Quotes About Craft

Each body has its art.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

There's no art where there's no fee.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.